5 Hardware and systems issues
This chapter is concerned with explaining the audio storage media, sound cards and interfaces commonly encountered on computers. It also considers signal processing options and hardware abstraction layers for communication with sound cards.
5.1 Storage media
The purpose of this section is to describe the principles, limitations and applications of storage media used for audio in computer workstations. The media described are not exclusive to the field of audio and are widely encountered in general-purpose storage applications. In most cases the same media that are used for general purpose applications in computers can be used for storing audio and video without modification, although certain specifications must ...
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